Prof. Jerry Edward Chipuk

Jerry Edward Chipuk, PhD, is an internationally recognised scientist and accomplished academic leader, has been named chair of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (FIU Medicine). He also served as Professor of Oncological Sciences and Dermatology, Associate Director of Shared Resources at the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center, and Director for Cell Biology in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He joined Mount Sinai in 2010, following post-doctoral fellowships at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis and La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in San Diego.

Dr. Chipuk studies fundamental mitochondrial biology within the perspective of human disease etiology and treatment. His laboratory has developed multiple model systems, collaborations, and experimental tools to investigate the intersections between mitochondria, cell biology, and disease.

As Associate Director of Shared Resources, Dr. Chipuk supports Bioinformatics for Next Generation Sequencing, Biorepository, Biostatistics, Cancer Genomics Technologies, Flow Cytometry, Microscopy, and Human Immune Monitoring Center resources within the cancer community, and he develops new core resources for the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center. Dr. Chipuk is a member of both the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center and the Diabetes, Obesity, & Metabolism Institute. He is also the founding Director of the Mitochondrial Analysis Facility.

Dr. Chipuk is an associate editor for numerous journals focused on molecular and cellular biology. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the International Cell Death Society, is a Senior Affiliate with bioR𝛘iv, a preprint server for biology operated by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and is a member of numerous committees of the American Society for Cell Biology.